{"id":2311,"date":"2011-03-06T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2011-03-07T10:44:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:44:55","slug":"flwpremiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/03\/flwpremiere\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright now open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Art Museum Premieres Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition<\/strong><\/em>
\nInnovative Exhibition Will Showcase Wright\u2019s Visionary Ideas for Utopian Living<\/em><\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013<\/strong> On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s home, studio and school in Spring Green, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present a major exhibition offering a fresh perspective on celebrated architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s seven-decade career. The exhibition will run from February 12 through May 15, 2011.<\/p>\n

Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century<\/em> surveys more than 150 works, including drawings \u201433 of which have never been exhibited publicly\u2014 scale models, furniture, and photography as well as video footage of Wright and several key projects.\u00a0 Reflecting on Wright\u2019s impact during his lifetime and his significance today, the retrospective will highlight the many triumphs of Wright\u2019s career and focus on his grand opus of suburban planning, Living City (1958) which, though never realized, was the culmination of all his work. This blueprint for Wright\u2019s urban utopia vision incorporated the natural environment into everyday life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWright defined organic architecture as being appropriate to \u2018place, people and time\u2019 and designed around those elements. He wanted to connect with new technology and use it to advance his architecture,\u201d said Brady Roberts, chief curator for the Milwaukee Art Museum. \u201cWright\u2019s design for suburban communities integrated nature, affordable homes, enlightened workspaces, parking, and other aspects of daily living, all in a repeatable model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Examining major projects including Unity Temple (Oak Park, Illinois, 1905), Fallingwater (Mill Run, Pennsylvania, 1936), Johnson Wax (Racine, Wisconsin, 1936, known today as the SC Johnson Administration Building), Taliesin (1911\u201359), and Taliesin West (Scottsdale, Arizona, 1937\u201359), the exhibition will analyze Wright\u2019s objectives and illuminate the pioneering vision of the man known as America\u2019s greatest architect.<\/p>\n

\u201cWright was a prophetic thinker, decades ahead of his peers. In many ways, key aspects of his career relate to issues and practices of architecture today, including sustainability and efficiency,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cIn examining Wright\u2019s concern with material and space efficiency, economical use of manufactured materials, attention to local environment, and use of natural light, we see his profound contribution as a visionary for architectural practice in the twenty-first century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century<\/em> is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and Phoenix Art Museum in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale. The exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the centennial of Taliesin in 2011, which is also the 10th anniversary of the Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s Santiago Calatrava\u2013designed Quadracci Pavilion. The exhibition will travel to Phoenix Art Museum in 2012.<\/p>\n

ABOUT FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
\n<\/strong>Frank Lloyd Wright (1867\u20131959) spent more than 70 years creating designs that revolutionized the art and architecture of the 20th century. In all, he designed 1,141 works\u2014including houses, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges and museums. Of that total, 532 resulted in completed works, 409 of which still stand. Wright also designed furniture, fabrics, art glass, lamps, dinnerware, silver, linens and graphic arts. In addition, he was a prolific writer, an educator and a philosopher. He authored 20 books and countless articles, lectured throughout the United States and in Europe, and developed a remarkable plan for decentralizing urban America that continues to be debated by scholars and writers to this day.<\/p>\n

RELATED PROGRAMS
\n<\/strong>The Museum will present a symposium and lectures on architecture, special events with visiting architects, and a self-guided tour of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in Wisconsin, highlighting his most significant projects in Milwaukee and Racine. For more information, visit the exhibition website at http:\/\/www.mam.org\/frank-lloyd-wright\/<\/a><\/p>\n

EXHIBITION SPONSORS<\/strong>
\nFrank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century<\/em> is sponsored by SC Johnson Fund and PNC, with the Figge Foundation and Thomas K. Figge. Additional generous support is provided by Andy Nunemaker, the Dorothy W. Inbusch Foundation, the Ruth St. John and John Dunham West Foundation, and the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE MUSEUM
\n<\/strong>The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 20,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine as \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d For more information, please visit www.mam.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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